![]() Many themes of his later work make their initial appearance here, expressed with unforgettable liveliness and subtlety. In this wide-ranging work Nietzsche first employed his celebrated aphoristic style, so perfectly suited to his iconoclastic, penetrating and multi-faceted thought. It is part of our fear and anxiety in the face of greatness one might say we take revenge on the greatness of men's works by studying their lives, prying into them with an intensity of scrutiny from which no one would emerge unscathed. ![]() Hollingdale's distinguished translation (originally published in the series Cambridge Texts in German Philosophy) with a new introduction by Richard Schacht. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. ![]() Summary: This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. ![]()
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